Getting licensed as a social worker in Arizona
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Get your Arizona licensing checklist
Your board, the portal you apply in, the fees, the supervised hours, and the order to do them in.
Your first license
Licensed Master Social Worker
LMSWExam required before the license
The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.
Known fees
| Application for license by examination | $250 |
|---|---|
| Known total | $250 |
What else it takes
- Supervised hours
- 3,200 hours, 1,600 client contact, 100 supervision, for the LCSW
- ASWB exam level
- Masters
- Licensure compact
- Member jurisdictionMultistate licenses are not yet being issued. Last checked against the compact's own site.
- Last checked
Next step
Obtain a master's or higher degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited program (R4-6-401(B)). Submit application, transcripts, and $250 fee to the Board.
The ladder
Arizona has 3 rungs. 3 need an ASWB exam.
bachelors
LBSW
ASWB Bachelors
Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker.
masters
LMSW
ASWB Masters
Licensed Master Social Worker.
clinical
LCSW
ASWB Clinical
Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Requirements change
Nothing on our law calendar changes Arizona's exam requirement today. The change that does touch you is national: ASWB launched the 2026 exams on August 3, 2026 with three content areas and 122 items, and held fees at $230 Masters and $260 Clinical. ASWB's announcement.
Law calendar read . If Arizona moves, this page moves with it.
Already passed? Track your supervised hours toward your clinical license.
Arizona asks for 3,200 hours of supervised experience and 100 hours of supervision.
Checked against the published rule. Last checked September 19, 2026.
Join the Hours waitlistPrograms in Arizona
How first-timers from each accredited program here did on the ASWB exam. A rate built on fewer than 10 first-time exams is one or two people, so those programs show how close they are to that floor instead of a percent. Source: ASWB, 2025 report.
Arizona State University
Arizona
- Clinical first-time
- 81.7% of 334national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 81.4% of 258national 73.9%
81.7% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Arizona State University - West
Arizona
- Clinical first-time
- 84.6% of 52national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 75% of 40national 73.9%
84.6% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
Grand Canyon University
Arizona
- Clinical first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 58.4% of 226national 73.9%
Too few first-time Clinical exams in 2025 to rate so far.
Northern Arizona University
Arizona
- Clinical first-time
- 70.8% of 24national 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- 71.1% of 45national 73.9%
70.8% of Clinical first-timers from here passed in 2025. National rate 75.7%.
University of Phoenix
Arizona
- Clinical first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 75.7%
- Masters first-time
- Too few to rate so farnational 73.9%
Too few first-time Clinical exams in 2025 to rate so far.
Sources
We read the board's own pages. Nothing here is a guess.
- Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners · LMSW applicant resourcesbbhe.az.gov · Last checked
- Arizona Administrative Code Title 4, Chapter 6, Article 4 (Social Work)apps.azsos.gov · Last checked
- Cornell LII mirror of R4-6-215 (fees); same 403 issue on primarywww.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
- Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictionsswcompact.org · Last checked
- Cornell LII mirror of R4-6-403 (used because apps.azsos.gov / bbhe.az.gov return 403 to automated fetch, incl. Safari UA)www.law.cornell.edu · Last checked
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